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One unhappy hackintosh
I'm not quite sure when my happy little hackintosh lost its pep and vim, but somewhere in the 10.5.6/10.5.7 timeframe I started getting Webkit crashes and other unpleasantries. Has anyone else seen 'mysterious' issues crop up?
You know that the latest upgrade to 10.5.7 was *much* smaller than the previous one to 10.5.6. If you dont mind having no printer drivers, it is now a fairly easy install to go to 10.5.7 on a Mini 9 with an 8gb hard drive. I did it with no problems, really. Just be choosy about the other upgrades (do them one at a time).
However, to comment on the original question, my OSX install on my mini 9 started hitching while watching video, etc after my upgrade to 10.5.7. I thought it was some other factors (I was playing with the hardware) but that sounds exactly the same. I am gonna do a clean install on it soon. figure this thing out.
However, to comment on the original question, my OSX install on my mini 9 started hitching while watching video, etc after my upgrade to 10.5.7. I thought it was some other factors (I was playing with the hardware) but that sounds exactly the same. I am gonna do a clean install on it soon. figure this thing out.
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The 160GB drive in the Wind is ample for an OS X install, I bumped it up to 2 GB of RAM, and for quite a while it was a workable machine for me -- if not for the cramped keyboard and the infuriating trackpad-click (which I could never turn off, but apparently that's fixed in the latest driver pack) I would have used it far more often.
Unfortunately it's been sitting idle for a while and has now developed this annoying won't-run-Safari habit. I'm torn between spending the time to get it back in gear as an OS X box or simply wiping it back down to XP or Ubuntu and having it be a bit more supportable.
Unfortunately it's been sitting idle for a while and has now developed this annoying won't-run-Safari habit. I'm torn between spending the time to get it back in gear as an OS X box or simply wiping it back down to XP or Ubuntu and having it be a bit more supportable.
Mine runs wonderfully, though I cheated and didn't make it myself... got it pre-hackintoshed from macwind.net. Best purchase ever... compliments my MBP perfectly, boots in 11 seconds. Love it! Got it 5 days ago. Came pre-loaded with 10.5.7. Got the 6-cell battery and am getting 5.6 hours per charge.
The Dell Mini 9 is the "easiest" to make into a hackintosh, by far. Every feature works out of the box, so to speak. The MSI Wind works just as well, but there are some tweaks that need to be made and some drivers that have to be added. It's not overly difficult for the tech savvy out there, and there are plenty of guides on sites like msiwind.net.
I tend to lean toward the Wind because it's got a much larger hard drive and you can usually find them much cheaper than the Dell's, at least from my limited research (I've had my Wind for awhile).
I tend to lean toward the Wind because it's got a much larger hard drive and you can usually find them much cheaper than the Dell's, at least from my limited research (I've had my Wind for awhile).
Ah, still running 10.5.6. I've been overly happy with mine to be honest! I had XP on it for about...1 hour. Used Ubuntu for a month or two then gave up and switched to OS X. Been happy ever since! Powerful little thing especially with OS X. Sorry to hear about yours though, I'll be sticking to 10.5.6 now.
I'm on my HP mini running OS X right now and i've been completely happy with it since it's first little OS X footsteps. It runs great and i haven't even upgraded my ram as yet. Everything works perfectly and though i haven't upgraded to 10.5.7 as of yet, I'm still busy doing allot of different things to test the limits of what i can do with Mac 10.5.6...
I wonder what would happen if Apple just came out with a $500 notebook to compete with all the cheap notebooks/netbooks out there. It would really change the market, people could get a good OS for cheap without having to go the Mac Mini route. Would be interesting...
I agree totally but i cant see Apple going that route for some reason. They've always been a premium product especially when it comes to laptops and desktops, the so called Apple tax. I think that the closest they'll get to the netbook market is the iPhone which is obviously going to get more and more powerful with even more capabilities
I have my Eee PC 1000h hackintoshed. Every feature works great including multitouch, although I think it took a bit more work than it would have had I purchased the Dell mini 9 instead. I do, however, have infrequent multilanguage error screen crashes. Other than those it seems to run very well, I can even watch Hulu on it, given I exit every other application (and yes I have installed a 2gb ram upgrade already).
The crashes are nowhere near frequent enough for me to rate them as a serious issue, more of a minor annoyance that I would still love to see fixed. I have fully updated with every new rollout without any issues at all, my battery life has been consistently great and I have seen no slow downs at all. Despite a little extra set up time I would say the 1000h is a great machine to serve as a hackintosh.
The crashes are nowhere near frequent enough for me to rate them as a serious issue, more of a minor annoyance that I would still love to see fixed. I have fully updated with every new rollout without any issues at all, my battery life has been consistently great and I have seen no slow downs at all. Despite a little extra set up time I would say the 1000h is a great machine to serve as a hackintosh.
I'm getting a Dell Mini 10v in the mail friday, but from what I've heard on the MyDellMini.com forums, 10.5.7 works much better and improves battery life. Sorry it isn't working out with your Wind...
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I don't have any problems with my Lenovo S10 and 10.5.7. If you didn't use Boot 132, you should.
I've had ye MSI for 2 months now. It's been nothing but perfect under OS X. Loaded 10.5.6 then 10.5.7 right way. Dual boot with Windows 7 (never use Windows 7). I can say that OS X runs much snappier than Windows 7 (it's a 2GB machine) and compared to my very early 1.83Ghz Macbook which started on Tiger and gets constantly upgraded to the latest version it actually feels quicker. Hate hate hate the trackpad (mostly use a bluetooth mouse).
I've had my MSI for 2 months now. It's been nothing but perfect under OS X. Loaded 10.5.6 then 10.5.7 right way. Dual boot with Windows 7 (never use Windows 7). I can say that OS X runs much snappier than Windows 7 (it's a 2GB machine) and compared to my very early 1.83Ghz Macbook which started on Tiger and gets constantly upgraded to the latest version it actually feels quicker. Hate hate hate the trackpad (mostly use a bluetooth mouse).
My acer one is running 10.5.6 fine. I'll probably not bother with the upgrade.
yeh... frequent time machine or superdooper backups are your friend.
It is currently dissassembled in my house while I fit a glowing mac logo, paint it aluminium and interally fit a USB2.0 hub, GPS, DVB-T tv and bluetooth into the unused usb headers.
Its great for travelling when my new unibody MBP is a bit of a handfull.
yeh... frequent time machine or superdooper backups are your friend.
It is currently dissassembled in my house while I fit a glowing mac logo, paint it aluminium and interally fit a USB2.0 hub, GPS, DVB-T tv and bluetooth into the unused usb headers.
Its great for travelling when my new unibody MBP is a bit of a handfull.
I've had my MSI Wind hackintosh for quite for quite a few months now and I can relate to the possible problems you might be having with 10.5.7 since when I originally upgrade mine with the update it ended up crashing my Wind. Since I was the fool for knowing you're not suppose to update a hackinstosh through the normal channels I even ended up frying the hard drive while trying to remove it. Finally I ended up replacing it with a WD 320GB hard drive and got it running properly with help from the guys at MSIWind.net. By the way running OSX is one of the main reasons I bought this netbook apart from portability and I purely love it. Trackpad could be bigger though.
this post its writing by a MSI wind u100 running OSX 10.5.4 with dual boot xp and works great without the headphone and stereo jack.
is there anybody to know how fix that?
is there anybody to know how fix that?
Working fine over here with 10.5.7 on my Wind Hackintosh dual-boot with XP. I think a lot of people have run into problems doing the incremental updates since 10.5.4, whereas I started from 10.5.4, and did a combo update straight to 10.5.7, reinstalling a few patches for keyboard, mouse and display along the way. Running extremely well here, just upgraded to 2gb ram too. Good luck with your install.
thank you jpxdude Yesterday I updated witout problems to 10.5.7 with dual boot
full drivers working
full drivers working
